At the site of Kach Kouch, in the province of Tetouan, a group of Moroccan researchers unearthed the first known protohistoric village in the Maghreb. This unprecedented discovery confirms the existence of an early Bronze Age settlement predating the arrival of the Phoenicians in the Maghreb region.
Ephedra, an ancient medicinal plant, was used in funerary rituals and possibly for therapeutic purposes by prehistoric communities in Morocco, accoring to a Nature recent study. Fossilized plant remains found in the Grotte des Pigeons indicate the symbolic and medicinal significance of plants among the Iberomaurusians, early hunter-gatherers in North Africa.